Safari’s Backwards Behavior – JavaScript/CSS

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Greetings, and thanks for a great website.

I really like the Javascript/CSS implementation on AFP548’s Articles index page.

More specifically, I’m impressed by the Javascript/CSS code that toggles “display:none” on and off so that the page loads [ideally] with the Category directories “closed.” Clicking on the expansion triangle then opens and displays the list of Articles in the particular category.

This method downloads all of the necessary data/text into the browser at one time, allowing the browser to instantly show or hide the requested details without refreshing the affected frame. Very fast and very nice.

I would like to create a similar effect with a WebBBS forum running on OS X Server 10.2.5, but I want very much to be able to use Safari instead of MSIE Mac.

The problem:

Using MSIE Mac 5.2.2 the Articles page works as it should … details are hidden until requested.

Using Safari Beta 2, the Articles page opens with ALL of the Articles displayed within each Category. Clicking on a triangle hides the Articles listed, as expected, and vice versa, but the whole point was to allow the user to select and view only the detailed list of Articles for the chosen Category. Everything else remains nicely hidden.

I know enough to detect which browser is requesting a web page, and I am willing to send different data to MSIE and Safari, but nothing I’ve tried changes the default behavior for either MSIE or Safari.

Any chance AFP548.com’s gurus can fix this for Safari? And if so, any chance you’ll let me in on the secret?

Or, perhaps not.

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